either use to turn water into a presumably not-that-delicious marg

Don't tell me to Google "marg", because if it is a word, it's a stupid word. I really doubt that it's a word, though.

We're thankfully long past the days when an emailed Word document was useless without a copy of Microsoft Word

My first thought upon reading this was, "Right, because Microsoft has all of those various free Office viewers".

Yup. Scientific American.

"The Wintel cartel appears to be well and truly dead

We're in the process of revamping my company's IT infrastructure: About 30 Wintel PC's, 3 Wintel Servers, and 0 *pads.

Unfortunately for my company's employees, we don't make money from watching Netflix or playing whatever this week's hot game is on tablets. We have to do work to earn money, and we can't do work on tablets or phones.

I have *0* respect for a person who submits to photographs, fingerprints, credit checks or drug tests to get a job.

If you don't have enough self-respect to not sell your identity for a job then you're not worth my time.

You can set up a HSA instead of insurance, if you want.

Otherwise, I'll say how dare you expect the rest of us to pay for your health care because you don't want to.

Are you fucking kidding me? Bug fixes for a currency?

I'd be real curious to see how many Bitcoin users are also Amway and Herbalife salesmen.

You're wrong. It's very usable. I like it quite a lot, when using a touchscreen. It's kinda' awesome, actually.

That's just my opinion.

Another bad decision from Firefox. My company's moving to Windows 8. We'll be sticking with Chrome, which has a simple toggle between standard and metro. Every laptop made today is a touchscreen, and Windows 8 is awesome on a touchscreen.

Then you probably have no clue whatsoever.

Actually, I pay the health insurance for more than 20 people. I know more about health insurance costs than you do, unless you happen to be a health insurance salesperson.

Hopefully people have finally gotten the message and aren't handing over their money to private companies just because the government says you have to.

Why are you "hopeful" that people are not buying health insurance, and instead paying the tax penalties and living without health care? Sociopath, maybe?

Then after you realize that government regulations are so onerous that its really difficult to get a business started, you'll have to go back to working for a big company.

Like what regulations, exactly?

was on my own with a full-time consultancy, but I scaled it back to off-hours and went back to a forty-hour-a-week corporate job for the health insurance.

I call bullshit. You had a "full-time consultancy" but couldn't afford a few hundred bucks a month for health care? Right.

The point is that after they have entered their password, the child has 30 minutes of unfettered purchasing power and there is NO warning of this at all.

No warning sign... except for entering the password...

Am I missing something, or are you trying to be funny?

That's a lot of complexity and room for error just to save a few hundred bucks.